CVE-2013-1664 Information

Description

The XML libraries for Python 3.4 3.3 3.2 3.1 2.7 and 2.6 as used in OpenStack Keystone Essex Folsom and Grizzly; Compute (Nova) Essex and Folsom; Cinder Folsom; Django; and possibly other products allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and crash) via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Reference

http://blog.python.org/2013/02/announcing-defusedxml-fixes-for-xml.html http://bugs.python.org/issue17239 http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-February/000078.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0657.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0658.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0670.html http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1757-1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/19/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/19/4 https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1100282